More Good News for Tavistock Museum Natwest Community Force Winner 2011 - Tavistock Museum

By: Tavistock Museum
Added: 06 March 2012

The Tavistock Museum Charitable Trust is delighted to announce that it is one of the three winners in the local banking area, and has received a grant
of £6,275 from Natwest. On Tuesday 6th March 2012

Trevor Kerswill, museum treasurer received a cheque from Gay Bassett, Natwest Branch Manager. Also present were Andrew Hassall, Natwest Area
Manager, and a group of the museum volunteers.

In July 2011 Natwest launched Community Force a new initiative to help support local charities and community organisations publicise their work and
attract volunteers. The programme has also provided the opportunity for three groups in each of the 131 Community Force banking areas to receive grants.
Over 5000 eligible charities and community organisations in England and Wales applied to  take part in 2011, and last autumn an on-line public vote
took place to decide which three groups in each banking area should receive awards. Tavistock Museum received 159 votes of support enabling us to come third in our banking area.

The Tavistock Museum is open approximately 200 days each year from Easter Saturday until the end of October, and receives approximately 4,500 visitors annually. It is run entirely by volunteers some of whom give up to a day each week of their time to help. There are currently thirty volunteers involved with stewarding, a task that will appeal to anyone who has an interest in the town and its history. There are also ten volunteers involved with the cataloguing and digitising the photographic collections which requires an additional interest in computers. The money from the grant will be put towards new storage for our collections and new facilities for our stewards.

Roderick Martin, Secretary to the Tavistock Museum Charitable Trust, said 'We have been overwhelmed by the level of support shown for Tavistock Museum and we are grateful to Natwest for their generous support of local community projects. This is a huge windfall for a small community group like ours. The Museum Trust wishes to thank everyone who voted for us in this very exciting and keenly-fought competition. Our congratulations go to Bude Open Air Sea Pool (359 votes) and Universal Beat Group, Bude (188
votes) who were also winners in our banking area.'

Gay Bassett, Branch Manager said 'Natwest were delighted to support such a worthy cause for Tavistock.'